Why I'm moving to Mexico (video)

Founding Father Emiliano Zapata wants you to join the US Army and get the heck out of MX

• The Spirit Nomad, YouTube; Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

US, UK men marry Thai go-go girls

(The Borderless Office) June 10, 2025: American men living in Pattaya Thailand (Buddhist Southeast Asia): Here's why it beats life in the United States. Whatever happens, falling in love and being suckered out of a fortune is common:

We must surely be learning? (Beatles)

The Beatles "While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2018 Mix)"

There's no comparison to Beatle George Harrison, who wrote and sings this masterpiece, while nearly all the credit for the band's greatness goes to the other two competing with each other, and no one even remembers Pete Best. What about Ringo? Who?

LYRICS: I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping / Still, my guitar gently weeps // I don't know why nobody told you / How to unfold your love / I don't know how someone controlled you / They bought and sold you // I look at the world and I notice it's turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake, we must surely be learning / Still, my guitar gently weeps / I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted, too / I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you / I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / (I look) Look at you all / Still, my guitar gently weeps / Oh, oh /  Yeah, yeah

We weep for the world -- steeped in ignorance, the root of all harm, giving rise to greed (lust) and aversion (fear), liking and disliking, the Roots of Good and Evil. Who cares if someone is good or evil? That person is going to care when the RESULTS come around. Karma really brings about what we experience, what we are experiencing now. So it is vital to grasp what "karma" means and what it doesn't. The greatest karma meme ever sums it up, a picture of credit card with the slogan: "Karma: It's everywhere you're going to be." (That's based on an old credit card commercial, which if people have never seen it because the successful marketing campaign ended a long time ago, may not get the impact of why it's a clever meme and a vital message/warning. If we knew that everything was going to follow us, none of it unseen or forgotten, we might behave differently, very differently. But we think we're getting away with everything, think there is nothing to come of this (what we do, say, and think). Pink Floyd has a great song about this from the CD Animals called "Sheep."

• What do you get for pretending the danger's not real?
• Meek and obedient shall follow the leader
• down well-trodden corridors into the Valley of Steel
• What a surprise, a look of terminal shock in your eyes!
• Now things are really what they seem
• No, this is not a bad dream

Sad song of the past: "Forgiven" with Alanis

Alanis Morrisette live, studio; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

You cut his dick and nearly drowned him?!!

Wow, the beautiful and talented Canadian Alanis Morrisette rose to prominence with a great introductory album, Jagged Little Pill (1995), shattering all kinds of records. How could one person be so talented with such a warbly voice? Content, authenticity, really pouring her guts out or having a good co-writer to add that theater scene that Full House protagonist says he doesn't remember happening. "Ironic" isn't ironic, but how could "Forgiven" not have been a breakout hit? Would only recovering Catholics understand? C'mon, guilt is all over the Abrahamic faiths. More people must have gotten it. Ahh, it's unfair -- girls as the butt of that religion being the biggest fans (in total numbers) of that religion. But it hooks a person, and there's almost no way out. Too much fear, guilt, recriminations for even dreaming of leaving it behind. Caesar's Messiah: The Romans sure pulled off some powerful psyops in reinventing a faith for an empire to be taken in until there's no way out. Joseph Atwill explains it pretty well.

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LYRICS: You know how us Catholic girls can be/ We make up for so much time, a little too late/ I never forgot it, confusing as it was/ No fun with no guilt feelings/ The sinners, the saviors, the loverless priests/ I'll see you next Sunday

[Chorus] We all had our reasons to be there/ We all had a thing or two to learn/ We all needed something to cling to/ So we did

I sang Alleluia in the choir (Alleluia)/ I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man/ My brothers, they never went blind for what they did/ But I may as well have/ In the name of the Father, the Skeptic. and the Son/ I had one more stupid question

[Chorus]

What I learned I rejected, but I believe again/ I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition/ If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven?

[Chorus]

We all had delusions in our heads/ We all had our minds made up for us/ We had to believe in something/ So we did

We all had our reasons to be there/ We all had a thing to learn/ We all needed something to cling to/ So we did

So we did/ Ooh-ooh, I, I, I/ So we did

Celeb-approved "orgasm shot" restored sex

Amy Reast Talker News via SWNS, Nov. 10, 2023; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Glória Vieira, 50, "lost" her sexuality after end of 16-year marriage (Gloria Vieira via SWNS).

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British woman says celeb-approved orgasm injection made her ‘feel alive again’

If I could sell it on goop.com, I would.

The treatment has been raved about by the likes of [American actor and Goop capitalist] Gwyneth Paltrow and Kourtney Kardashian.

A woman who "lost her sexuality" after heartbreak got a celebrity-approved "orgasm shot," costing $1,400.00 per session, and said it's made her "feel alive again."

Glória Vieira, 50, felt she'd "lost" her sexuality after the end of her 16-year marriage.

It's "science." And I get to give the shots.

She said her sexuality has always been a "big part" of her identity, and she wanted to bring it back.

After some research she stumbled across research about the "orgasm shot," said to increase sensitivity and improve sex.

It is a series of injections of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) into the intimate areas to stimulate tissue development.

Like Stella, I got my groove back.

The treatment has been raved about by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Kourtney Kardashian, and Sinitta.

Within two weeks Vieira began feeling the effects of the shot and said it was "as close as I could get to a miracle."

Vieira, an accountant based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK, said: "When my marriage ended, I wondered what I could do to make me feel like myself again. More

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Burning from the Inside: Bauhaus (video)

Bauhaus from Burning From the Inside; Gothy Gothison, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LYRICS: "Kingdom's Coming"

Madness in the wind's got something to say

It ripped you apart

It will always be that way

It said, kingdom's coming, causes chaos

Will cut to pieces

The film you saw today

It's your big bad secret

Your crown of thorns

You want for nothing, nothing at all

Sky will open soon, could be today

(Can't look back, back again)

Your kingdom's coming, coming today

(You want it all, but it's on the run)

Can't take it easy, can't turn back

(The sky will open soon, could be today­)

Forget your bastard ego, get it off your back

(Your kingdom's coming, coming, coming today)

Can't just look back, back again

(Can't take it easy now, can't turn back)

You want it all, but it's on the run

(Forget your bastard ego, get it off your back)

The sky will open

"Burning from the Inside"

Running without aim

Through the razor reeds

That only reach my knees

And when I'm lying

In the grey sleep

I don't know how

To walk the boards

I open my eyes

And look at the floor

And now I don't see you

Anymore

There is no choice

We make a point

To counteract
A threatening hand

Close my hold

Let's be near

Let's be near

The atmosphere

Nothing Higher to Live For: Romantic Love

Yung Gravy; Jimmy Kimmel; Leonard Price (Ven. Nyanasobhano), Nothing Higher to Live For: A Buddhist View of Romantic Love (ATI); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

If we accept that it's a truism that "white men can't jump," what can be said of their rapping?

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I should be dressed like a Central Asian royal.

...They have nothing but love to live for.

This is not to say that such a surrender must be bad, only that it happens out of instinct and uninformed passion.

Love is sweet, and it is our nature to give in. But why do we worship relationships so ardently, and why do we break off our search for real fulfillment here? Perhaps it's because we see no other gods.

Yet if love is the highest thing to live for then this is a hopeless universe, because we should see in a calm hour that Cupid's arrows not only thrill us but make us bleed and endanger our loves, leaving pathetic and clingy.

Can I love the Buddha, my teacher?

"Man Kills Estranged Lover Then Self," "Wife Stabs Husband in Domestic Quarrel," "Love Triangle Leads To Shooting" -- so read the headlines with depressing regularity.

The stories behind them are only the most shocking of countless tales of passion, but they forcefully suggest that romantic love is not always a blessing.

One might object that hate, not love, spawns such tragedies. But where has such hate come from if not from a prior attachment now broken?

We should know from experience how easily what we call love can turn to bitterness, jealousy, and malice. And though we protest that this is not the fault of love, we ought to notice that where one passion arises another is likely to follow.

Passions are unreliable, volatile, dangerous, and a poor foundation for our happiness.

Divorces, suicides, dissipation, violence, depravity, fanaticism, and other miseries great and small follow from passion. Yet passion is still, in the public mind, considered commendable, a mark of vigor and liveliness.

Though everyone will admit that passion gone awry is dangerous, few realize that passion is by its nature likely to go awry.

Romantic love is a chancy passion that may result in the opposite of what is desired. It may have happy consequences, too — else it would not have so many devotees — but it raises the stakes in the gamble of life and makes us more vulnerable both to our own weaknesses and to unpredictable fortune.

As most of us count the joys of successful love (however one defines it) worth the pain involved in its pursuit, we must learn to step lightly and with intelligence.

We believe, with some reason, that love can ennoble and redeem us and call forth our purest energies, but we are slower to see that when the lamp of love flickers out, as it tragically tends to do, we might lose our way in a fearful labyrinth of suffering.

Granted that few will shun the pursuit of romance out of fear of unhappy consequences, what can be done to soften those consequences?

If we really have nothing higher to live for, nothing to fall back on, the sad truth is that nothing much can be done to ameliorate them, given the volatile nature of human affections.

So it would be wise to make sure there really is no superior, sustaining ideal before committing ourselves exclusively to the chase.

Nirvana

Man in front of Maitreya in Himalayas

Buddhism, of course, teaches such an ideal, which is nothing less than freedom from all sorrow, called nirvana.

While worldly joys are mutable and fleeting, nirvana is established, sorrowless, stainless, and secure.

While worldly pains are piercing, unpredictable, and unavoidable, nirvana is altogether free from pain. It is the end of suffering, the supreme refuge, the ultimate liberation.

The Buddha himself applied many terms of praise to nirvana while recognizing the essential inadequacy of words and concepts.

Nirvana cannot be grasped by language or concept, but it can be known and realized by direct experience for one who makes the right effort. This is a critical point.

Nirvana is not something that happens to us through an external agency. Rather it is something that we ourselves may experience by our efforts in calm and insight.

The Buddha certainly never would have troubled himself to teach had he not understood that his own realization was not a chance event but rightly won and that those who followed the instructions to realize it could also experience direct realization for themselves.

Yolandi Visser and motorcyclist house guest (Die Antwoord, "Baby's on Fire")

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This understanding, passed down, has sustained the Buddhist Dharma or religion to the present day. The diligent are powerful. Suffering can be overcome.

What is the Path?

Knowing ourselves to be sunk in confusion and beset by myriad defilements, we might regard nirvana as too remote to do us much good here and now.

We persist in seeing an unbridgeable chasm between enlightened beings (saints) and ordinary people like ourselves. We think practically everybody is like us (or worse), while maybe there are one or two genuine saints in the world.

Presumably they have just been born in that awakened condition or with the exceptional good luck to get themselves elevated — who knows how?

Yet the human condition is not, according to Buddhism, a fixed sentence to this or that level of wisdom and virtue. Beings are living at all stages of attainment. They do not stay in the same place.

They rise through their own good efforts and decline through their own negligence in the endless action and reaction of intentional deeds (karma) and the results of those deeds (karma-vipaka). More

White rapper Yung Gravy goes on a date with horrendous hag Aunt Chippy

Valentine's Day on Jimmy Kimmel Live! just got depraved and deplorable because Aunt Chippy is the opposite of a sport, while Yung Gravy is just about the coolest hipster around.

Who is this guy "Yung Gravy"?

Self-Compassion: Self-Soothing (Kristin Neff)

Kristin Neff (self-compassion.org, 10/16/14); Amber Larson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Kristin Neff: The Three Components of Self-Compassion

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Do it right now in two minutes

Worlds Apart: Parallel Lives (video)

Daughtry, Lzzy Hale, Gal Godot, C. Pine; Dhr. Seven, Kalyani, Wisdom Quarterly; Dhammawood

Figure it out. How hard is it to figure out?

Parallel Lives: You in snow and I in sunshine, you relish flesh and I their lives save, when I was a seeker and you had found less-death.

You spawned children and I still wander, you pair and mate and I their hearts spare, when I was a seeker and you had found the deathless.

Was I to blame for pulling away or for your part how you spoke not and expected things to be plain?

Who, me, understand? "Figure it out, Chief." But I never would. It was all implicit, to be inferred; would I impute or let it unfurl?

Dhammawood Meditation Center of California – Explore and practice the teachings (the Dhamma) of the Buddha to have a happy life (Jurupa Valley, MapQuest)

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Joe Walsh love song: "Seems To Me" (video)

Joe Fidler Walsh, James Gang, 1971 (via Beat-Club); Rob Squad Reactions; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

James Gang: "Walk Away"

(Beat-Club) The James Gang (featuring Joe Fidler Walsh) was a rock band that formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. Though the band was not a huge commercial success outside of their home area, the fame garnered by guitarist Joe Walsh has since made the group more notable. Walsh later joined a famous California rock band -- the cocaine cowboys The Eagles -- and played guitar on their hit album and song "Hotel California." In April 1971, The James Gang released their third album, Thirds, including the live at the Beat Club performed song "Walk Away." The Third album missed a jam with Little Richard titled "But I Try," which was released only 41 years later.

Reaction

(Rob Squad Reactions) The James Gang, "Walk Away"? It's our first time hearing it. Now we know (1/8/22)! This is a channel with a passion to provide audiences with unique and funny videos and a love for all types of music from rap to heavy metal. In addition to reacting, wife Amber and I raise kids (Bria, Kiya, and Luca). We are here to try and make a change in this world starting with music that brings everyone together.

Joe became famous ("Life's Been Good")

LYRICS: "Walk Away"

Taking my time

Choosin' my line

Tryin' to decide what to do

Looks like my stop

Don't wanna get off

Got myself hung up on you

[Chorus]

Seems to me

You don't want to talk about it

Seems to me

You just turn your pretty head and walk away

Places I've known

Things that I'm growin'

Don't taste the same without you

I got myself in

The worst mess I've been

And I find myself startin' to doubt you

[Alternative chorus]

Seems to me

Talk all night, here comes the mornin'

Seems to me

You just forget what we said

And greet the day

[Chorus]

I've got ta cool myself down

Stompin' around

Thinkin' some words I can't name ya

Meet ya half way

Got nothin' to say

Still I don't s'ppose I can blame ya

[Chorus]

Walk away

Egoic LOVE is the worst thing (video)

Aerosmith (Cryin'), Alicia Silverstone; Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly

I wouldn't off myself for you, Dumb*ss

In this interesting and overly-viewed video, our vegan pal from the Valley, Alicia "Cher" Silverstone, plays a jilted partner cheated on by some great looking guy.

Old men, the father of her friend and fellow vegan actor Liv Tyer, a grizzled group of Summer of '69 oldsters calling themselves the Aeronautical Smiths (probably from wanting to work at Boeing-Northrop-Grumman in the neighboring South Bay of LA) or something, depict

• how quickly the heart attaches to a pleasant object (in this case a boyfriend),
• how easily it's hurt by betrayal (his attraction and consummation with another alluring object), 
• how dumb all the things we try to cope with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: tattoos, piercings, skimpy outfits, junk food, convertibles...

Whoever works for the record company compiling these music videos sure knows a thing or two about pop psychology. We're all eyes and ears, and it's a pretty good Southern rock song or pop schlock ala Jon "Casanova" Bon Jovi, a competing performer.

Good work, Liv Tyler's dad! The moral of the story? Egoic love (self-deluded clinginess) sucks and hurts.

• Betrayal trauma is real

4 Signs You're in a Parasitic Relationship

D. Ivan Young, NBC-HWC, YourTango.com, 8/23/22; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

4 Telltale Signs You're in a Parasitic Relationship

Signs of codependence (YourTango)

If you're to live a fulfilled, happy and meaningful life, you must make your happiness a priority. Many have been led to believe that putting yourself first is selfish — but that's simply not true.

There comes a time in everyone's life that one must put self first. If you don't, you could easily find yourself needlessly suffering.

The only thing worse than a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship is a parasitic relationship that you willfully aid and abet. The same person(s) that once brought you so much joy can quickly become the source of your pain if you lose sight of your own needs and values.

Beware the parasitic relationship 

I'll keep you so long as I can use you. Me, too!

A parasite typically latches on to a host and exploits the host (you) for resources it deems necessary for survival.

When you're in a parasitic relationship, the person you're dating, living with, or even married to is much like a parasite. They're either depleting you mentally, emotionally, financially, physically, or a combination thereof.

Are there female narcissists who cheat on, lie to, and gaslight partners?

Moreover, they could care less how much you sacrifice or what the cost is to you as long as you give them what they want, when, where, and how they want it. If you're left emaciated, heartbroken, stressed out or depressed is irrelevant to the parasite; all that matters to them is they get what they want. More

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Stop getting hurt = Stop having expectations

Stop letting people hurt you | Don't expect things from others

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✅ All contents (including all video and audio) are uploaded with Sadhguru's permission. 🙏🏻

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If someone breaks your heart: Sad Guru

If someone broke your heart: Watch this by Sadhguru

(TGS, July 29, 2021) Sad(h)guru: You’re divorcing your spouse, which is bad enough. Do not divorce yourself from yourself. You need to understand this. What you call as 'myself' right now is a huge volume of memory. Your body is a way [and that] is simply because of the genetic memory that it carries. You have your mother’s nose, your father’s complexion, and something else, your grandfather’s something else, simply because what you call as your body is a complex amalgamation of memory. A very ancient memory lives in your body. What you call as 'my mind' is 100% memory right now. So you are a huge heap of memory in many ways, and memory goes into you in different ways. Through all the five senses, you gather memory what you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you taste, what you touch...." #Sadhguru #breakup #relationship

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Decline in marriages blamed on...

R.J. Johnson (@rickerthewriter, Sep. 11, 2019); Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly

If women can't find men to marry for love, what are they marrying for? (brilliantearth.com)

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Decline in marriages blamed on shortage of "economically-attractive" men

Love and marriage has been on the decline in America over the last decade, and one study from Cornell University may have found one of the reasons why.

According to the study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, this week, a shortage of "economically-attractive" men could be to blame for the recent decline in marriage rates.

According to data from the U.S. Census, in the 1950s, nearly 70 percent of eligible men and women were married, as compared to around 50 percent in 2018. Additionally, over the last 60 years, there's been an increase of nearly 10 percent in those people who report never getting married.

The reasons for this major demographic shift are numerous with many people delaying marriage, or a cultural shift in the perception of unmarried couples who live together, but researchers say, there's also an economic reason.

"Most American women hope to marry but current shortages of marriageable men -- with a stable job and good income -- make this increasingly difficult, especially in the current gig economy of unstable low-paying service jobs," said lead author Daniel T. Lichter, Ph.D., of Cornell University.

Unlike previous studies that looked into gender ratio discrepancies, researchers took an economic look at marriage and the potential spouses that are out there. The authors of the study say there's a major mismatch between what single men in the United States have to offer and what single women are willing to accept -- that is to say, women aren't getting married because all the good ones are taken.

Researchers used data collected by the American Community Survey on recent marriages between 2007 and 2012 and 2013 and 2017 and focused on specific socioeconomic characteristics that make a couple a good match for one another. Researchers used the data to create fake spouses and compared the socioeconomic characteristics to the actual rates of unmarried men to track the differences.

"This study reveals large deficits in the supply of potential male spouses. One implication is that the unmarried may remain unmarried or marry less well‐suited partners," the study said.

The fake, potential husbands had an income that was 55 percent higher than what single men in the U.S. actually earn. The hypothetical husbands were also 26 percent more likely to be employed, and 19 percent more likely to have a college degree. In other words, expectations are not meeting reality when it comes to dating.

Researchers also found that older women have an even smaller dating pool of economically-attractive men than younger women, who have a slightly easier time finding an acceptable partner. Well-educated women also have a shortage of economically desirable men as opposed to less-educated women.

"Marriage is still based on love, but it also is fundamentally an economic transaction," said Lichter. "Many young men today have little to bring to the marriage bargain, especially as young women's education levels on average now exceed their male suitors."

My "Last Hurrah" - Bebe Rexha (video)

Bebe Rexha, "Last Hurrah" (video); CC Liu, Crystal Q., Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Nirvana? I'll get to it next weekend.

"I'm done with my karma"? Is it feminism to dress like an angel and feel like a "bad girl," a she-demon or dominatrix taking drugs and drinking? Lady Sativa, will she miss us? This song is so silly but deeper than most pop hits. "Maybe tomorrow I won't feel this pain," maybe. But why would it be any different? Of course, there'll be new pain tomorrow because the cause is still in place. All the wishing otherwise or willpower won't do a darn thing. We need a better plan or map to actual nirvana. But Bebe has heard of that: "I'm done with the heartache, I'm done with the demons. Can't wait to be normal, right after this weekend. I'm done with the drama, I'm fixing my karma [oh yeah, how?]. One more night up your nirvana." Nirvana means "the end of all suffering." That's why Kurt Cobain called his band that. He was miserable, and it was the ideal. But then what did he do but mope, get high, hang around with addict Courtney Love, and sing slacker anthems of self-pity? Great songs. Pearl Jam and the other Seattlelites must have been jealous. Bebe, what gives? This non-plan isn't going anywhere but another and another weekend of partying...the next hurrah. But, of course, that's probably the point of pop hits. :) xoxo

The Real Causes of Depression (TED video)

Johann Hari (How To: Academy, 2/4/18); Pat Macpherson, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

O, Mr. Grumpy Cat, rest in peace! We hardly knew ye. Why were you depressed?

 

The major TED speaker on addiction Johann Hari suggests that depression is NOT caused by any "chemical imbalance" in our brains but by crucial changes in the way we are living. Therefore, something can be done about it by ourselves. For Johann Hari this opens up seven new potential paths out of depression and anxiety -- ones that are very different to the paths we have been offered before. Filming by: Driftwood Pictures (driftwoodpictures.net).

Art in Zen: wabi-sabi, kintsugi (video)

S. Fitzgerald, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Broken cup repaired with gold, sacred scars, beautiful brokenness (thecupandtheroad.com)

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete." It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the Three Characteristics of Existence (三法印 sanbōin):

1. impermanence (無常 mujō) 
2. disappointment (苦 ku) 
3. emptiness, the absence of a self (空 kū).

The art of kintsugi, the beauty of brokenness, sacred scars (esprit-kintsugi.com)

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Kintsugi, Zen art in Japan (ruicunha.org)

Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.
 

DEFINITION

According to Leonard Koren wabi-sabi can be defined as "the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty, and it occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the far West."

Whereas Andrew Juniper notes that, "If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."

For Richard Powell, "Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

Relationship building (iamkristenbecker.com)

The words wabi and sabi do not translate easily into English. Wabi originally referred to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society. Sabi meant "chill," "lean," or "withered."

Around the 14th century these meanings began to change, taking on more positive connotations. Wabi now connotes rustic simplicity, freshness, or quietness and can be applied to both natural and human-made objects or understated elegance. More

The Beauty of Brokenness: Kintsugi
 
Kintsugi ("golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi ("golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.

As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history -- and therefore preciousness -- of an object, rather than something to disguise. More

• Kintsugi: the art of precious scars (lifegate.com) By repairing broken ceramics, it's possible to give new life to pottery that becomes more refined by its “scars.” 
• Kintsugi, The Japanese Art of Mending Broken Ceramics with Gold (artsy.net) The technique known as kintsugi, which means “golden seams,” was developed by lacquer masters... 
• Kintsugi 金継ぎ: The Book of Life (theschooloflife.com)...a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence.
• VIDEO: How to Fix Broken Pottery ...into eye-popping decorations that are literally dripping in gold.
• VIDEO: Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage 
• What is kintsugi? (mindful-company.com) 
• Kintsugi Kintsukuroi Art: where to buy
• Kintsugi, centuries-old Japanese method of repair
  

(The School of Life) HISTORY OF IDEAS: At the heart of Japanese philosophy and wisdom lies a concept called wabi-sabi, a term that denotes a commitment to the everyday, the melancholic, the broken, and imperfect. It’s a term we need more of in our lives. theschooloflife.com. Produced in collaboration with Mike Booth (somegreybloke), #TheSchoolOfLife. 

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